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National Republican., 1887-04-06

THE Bell Telephone Company wanted to
plead, answer, and demur all at the same
time in the suit against It by the govern
ment at Boston. But 1t was required to do
just what ether people are, select its mode
of defense.
National Republican., 1887-04-06
EDUCATIONAL.
2@ENEERXAN
BUSINESS COLLEGE,

In commodious halls, National Bank Of the
Republic Building, southwest corner Seventh
and d streets. Established in 1854. More than
10000 students have been trained in this College.
Services of Its graduates always In demand.
Thorough instruction given in Rapid
Writing, the English Language, Corresponds
ence, Rapid Calculations, bookkeeping, Bust
Economy, stenography, and Type Writing.
Regular day and hight sessions; o a. m, p. m.
Illustrated circular sent free on application.
HENRY O. SPENCER, Principal.
MRS SARA A SPENCER. Vice PRINCIPAL,
Telephone call S4-2.
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8.
Amusements.

NAI1oNAL--Haverly' Minstrels.
ALBAuGH's-Louis Aldrich.
KERsAH's-D'Alvini and specialties.
BIJou-Minnie Oscar Gray & W. 7. Stephens.
DINE--Loudon Mccormick and Maud Miller
TEE MANASSAS sPASoRAMA-15th st. & Ohio av.
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TRAKFEERs, GUIDE.
.EsAPEAKE AND OHIO ROUTE.

Newport News and Mississippi Valley Com
panyD
Union Depot, 9Th and B sts.
11O0 A. M.--For Newport News, Old Point
Comfort, and Norfolk. Daily except
sunday. Through Parlor Car TO old
Point Arrive In Norfolk at JPN.
11;20 A. M.--For all Stations on Chesapeake
and Ohio and points west. Sleeper
from Clifton Forge. Daily except Sum
day.
$50 p. M..Fast Western Express. Daily.
Solid Train with Pullman sleepers 10
Louisville. Pullman Service TO Gin
cnnati, st. Louis, Memphis, and New
Orleans.
Apply at Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
once, 6l3Pa. ave-, and Baltimore and Potomac
station. JOHN MUIR,
General Traffic Manager.
II, w, FULLER,
Geuefa1 baesan oer A oo,,f
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D1EDMONT AIR LINE.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT MAR. 1s. 1887.

Trains leave B. q p. Station, Sixth and
$3.50 MEsst Tennessee mail daily for
vile, Lynchburg, and stations between
Aiexandria AGann;1Ii % and Lynchburg, Bristol,
aIa Kna9xyille' Rome, Calera, Montgomery,
Washington to New Orleans.
A. MEass vail qRSS fsg stations
chesapeake and Ohio route, Lynch
burg, Rocky Mount, Danville, and
stations between Lynchburg and DAM
atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery.
Pullman Sleeper New York to Atlanta
Atlanta to New orleans and Mann
Boudoir Sleepers for Birmingham,
,rn,Rs ,yiSEseWnrg W1s,,Ia.d, and Shreveport. Solid
2:95 P. M.-Daily, except Sunday, for Manas-
sas, strasburg, and intermediate sta
$50 P. M-western express daily for warren-
ton, Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Louis
Vile Cincinnati, and line of Chesa-
pei peake and ana soa 0h,o route route Pnllman Sleep
Louisville, also for Lynchburg, Bristol,
Chattanooga, Memphis, Little Rock,
and all southwestern points. Through
P9nI Pai'msn Hai,S SSleepers Washington to Little
11eOP. M.-southern Express daily for Lynch.
burg, Danyille. Raleigh, Asheviile,
SAhsrl95te A9apia Golam6la, Aiken, augusta,
Texas. and California. Pull man Sleep.
ers Washington to Montgomery, con-
meeting with Pullman Parlor Cars
Montgomery to New Orleans. Pullman
Sleepers Washington to Aiken without
change.
TRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO d.
VISION
Leave washington 9I2 a. IN. daily, except Sum
gay, and 4:45 p. m. daily, arriving at Round
Hill ll31 q; m: and 7l0 p. m; returning, leave
Round Hill 6:05 a. m. daily and 1:3O D. M, daily
except sunday, arriving Washington $50 a. m,
Through trains from the South via Charlotte.
Danville, and Lynchburg, arrive in WASH
ington $40 a. M, 1923 p. m, via East Ten
nesse, Bristol, and Lynchhurg at 1901 D. M and
9:40 p. M, via Chesapeake and Ohio route, and
Charlottesville at s:40 p. m. Strasburg local at
9A7 q. m. ~
Tickets Sleeping Car reservation, and in
formation furnished and baggage checked at
office, Col Pennsylvania avenue, and at passen-
ger station, Pennsylvania railroad Sixth and
B streets. JAS. L. TAYLOR,
General Passenger Agent.
National Republican., 1887-04-06

's claimed that there is million dollars
worth of ore "in sight," 1t lookslike good
investment.
National Republican., 1887-04-06

EDwAaRPPG RPGoBRS &; HqEESFTR, 81 EPj,ocurroS
jan26m 1917 18th at, N. W.
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LSoR SALES. W. oNE-QUARTER OF
IL square 192, containing 42,502 So. n.
r ETREET NORTH.

The above beautiful piece of ground, lying
ing frontage of 2l7 f. In. on 10th and 2l2
Il, on r, can be bought upon reasonable terms
II immediate application is made to
FITCH, FOX 4 BROWN,
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SPECTAL NOTICES

n5Ss ACCOUNTANT SCOTCH CHAR
SN tered, opens, audits, or keeps BY con-
tract set oi books; partnerships investigated;
+. NJ NOBLE,
mar2Gsw-3m 1909 New York avenue.
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r<xszs Co AND 20 CENTS
kS FOR BINDING
HARPER'S, CENTURY, AND ST. NICHOLAS
MAGAZINE.
THE LYCETT BINDERY,
1910 and 1919 Pennsylvania ave.
All work guaranteed au2.tf

n|Ss=s NOTICE-ON AND AFTER APRIL
B-SS ! The Union Transfer Company will
call for and check baggage at hotels and resi-
dences through to destination at the uniform
rate of 25 cents for each piece. Baggage de-
livered to all parts of the city at the same
rate. apl.lm
National Republican., 1887-04-06
AUCTION SIZES.

DY VIRTUE or A DEED OF TRUST
liher No. ll9s, folio II, one of the land records
of Washington county, D. c., and at the re-
quest of the holder of the notes secured there.
by, ! will sell at public sale on the premises,
on FRIDAY. APRIL l5, 1887, at4o'clock p. NJ,
the north l6 feet front by the depth thereof OF
lot numbered 10, In block numbered Is in
Hall d Elyan's recorded subdivision Of Me-
ridian Hill, with flve-room frame house
thereon. Said property is sold subject To a
deed of trust securing an Indebtedness of $3.50,
payable In three years, with interest, payable
semi.annually, dated July !, 1856. recorded in
liber No 1893, folio 3l2. Terms of sale cash.
deposit Of 800 to be paid at time of sale.
W. p. METCALF, Trustee.
C. WEEKS. Auctioneer. apr6.mwf5t
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.FOR RENT.--HoUsES

LNoR RENTAL els PER MONru-A
~ county residence, being q Groom new
house, stables, and 20 acres; same in fruit and
grass; miles from Washington; suitable for
one in government employ. 4. II. SYPHERD
d CLEMENTS, 1907 II 81. n. W. GO
National Republican., 1887-04-06

DANORAMA OF BATTLE OF BULL RUN !
Il 18TH ST. two blocks south Of Pennsylva.
mia ave. THE MOST REALISTIC BATTCE
SCENE EVER PAINTED. Open from 9 A. NJ.
to 10 p. M. Sundays half price.
SHELDoN's ACADEMIES, 1904 F ST. N. W ,
- and Sd st. and Pa. ave. 8. Il. Now is
the annual May ball exercises.
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WANTED---ROOMS.

XXYANTED-2 OR 5 UNFURNisHED COM
w municatipg rooms on I'd floor, in north
western part Of city. near street cars. Address
A. F., Republican Office. 4-6
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VXTANTED-I AN READY TO PAY THE
w highest cash price for second hand cloth.
ing, watches, guns, pistols &C.; also furniture,
stoves, carpets, feather beds, carpenters tools,
v, Republican Office. Note by mail promptly
attended to. mar8-lmo
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Wy ANTED-BY A WHITE WOMAN,
w position as cook; no objection to leav-
ing. city; best Of references; also, position as
child nurse or chambermaid, by young CIR :.
Address N. E. cor. Goth and L SITS. is
VITANTED by A COLORED DRESS.
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YALE UNIVERSITY

ILEE TLTHSB' TS SIXTEEN IMnSnS,Oy yUICES; S; GOLLEGE
GLEES. MIMORouS SONGS, WAR
BANJO CLUB-FIyE BANJOS-THREE
GUITARS.
Seats on sale at Metzerott Il Co. IS on ana after
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1887. Admission, soc
Reserved Seats, 81.
Capitol Park, Monday, p. m, Washington vs.
Yale. ap4.Gt
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WANTED---lIISCELLANEOUs

UTANTEp-A COMPETENT TEACHER OF
wv ,elocution. private lessons Address Il. q ,
Republican Ofice. 5-G
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16

the steam comes into the cars at three
hundred degrees of heat. He can heat
ten cars, but in cold weather it is hard
to heat five cars. His system is not
suited to long lines of travel. He be-
lieved the railroads were ready to adopt
any practical device. He believed
safety for the future lay in putting
further protection around present heat
ers rather than taking the devices of
the hundred and one adventures in
the field Heaters can be put in safe
which will be as effective as a safe for
valuables. He thought the heaters
might be hung under the cars, pro-
tected by safe. Absolute safety in its
strictest sense he believed to be impos-
sible, but the best outlook for the fu-
ture is in improvement of hot water
heaters.
The problem of lighting cars so as
to dispense with infammable and ex-
plosive agents may be simpler than the
other. BY some it is claimed that
nothing can be safer than the use of
non-explosive oil or candles, as in case
of accident the lights are eXtinguished
by the conclusion, but their Illuminating
power is small. Lighting by gas is
condemned as unsafe. The expert
ment of lighting by electricity is being
tried to a limited extent, but of the
method and results we have no knowl-
edge. The expense would probably be
considerable, but if the method proves
perfectly feasible its general adoption
will soon be assured on all principal
transportation lines.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16

legislature, as expressed in response TO
the Globes circular letter of inquiry.
The following figures show the situa-
tom Democrats--for Cleveland, So:
for Hill, 49, for all others, 5. Republ-
cans-for Blaine, rs; for Sherman. 1G;
for Hawley, Z; for all others, 2; no
choice, 27.
A GOOD many people who have read
the Burlington Free Press and Spring
field Republican the past week have re-
ceived the impression that those papers
must have sent correspondents to the
scene of the Hartford accident for the
purpose of making out the worst case
possible for the railroad. Their con-
duct has either been inspired by NAL
ice or desire for sensationalism, rather
than adisposition to vindicate the truth
and serve the interests of the public.
THE democrats have had good deal
to say about republican inconsistency"
in rejecting the nomination of Mat
thews (colored) for register of deeds in
Washington. The Albany Journal gets
x
Mr.. Douglass was at one time a slave, and
for years he has been the representative
man of his race in this country He was
compelled to resign because he is a republic
can and for no other reason. Jim =" Mat
thews, on the other hand, has for years
been merely a small politician, not even
known outside the limits of Albany, and in
this city bearing no enviable political repu-
tation as citizens of his race have testified.
A representative colored man was forced
out of office to make room for one of the
pets of the small " machine " that manages
democratic politics in this county.
THERE is disposition on the part of
some of the reporters to criticise the
railroad management for closing the
morgue at Hartford to curiosity-seekers
and for making undue haste in their
endeavors to settle with the injured
and the legal representatives of the
killed. 1t is to be hoped that the first
charge is true. People who wish to
feast their eyes on horrors need some
body to interpose barrier. The sec
ond charge is not so serious as one
would be that they were unwilling to
settle at all. Perhaps their agents
have been too eager to get acquittances
before the sufferers fell into the hands
of shysters, as some of them might,
and perhaps they have carried their eff
forts too far, but there appears to have
been no failure of the company to do
all that humanity has required to ale
viate suffering and to meet with the ut
most promptness every requirement of
the emergency. Their loss is neces-
sarily very heavy and they might easily
obtain compromise after harrassing the
victims by the laws delay" For
this they would certainly be criticised.
They prefer prompt settlement, and
for this they are also criticised. 1t
would seem that their misfortune should
entitle them to at least candid iudg-
ment of their acts. -Rutland Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16

by a number of senators of both parties,
among them being Messrs. Morgan,
Edmunds, Hampton, Allison, Hawley
and Cockrell. Mrs. Logan and her
sons were present. The bill appro-
priating $2l ,0OO,0 for coast defences
and modern ordnance was passed. Sem
ators Hoar and Gibson made forcible
speeches in favor of the Eads ship rail-
way bill. Several bills were passed au-
thorizing the construction of railways
through Indian reservations. Several
measures have been discussed in the
house. The senate trade dollar redemp-
ton bill was passed with amendments.
A bill compensating the Chinese vic
Tins of the Rock Springs riot was
passed. The President has signed the
electoral count bill and the Dawes
Indian severalty bill. The house fish
cries committee has reported new
fishery bill, which does not materially
differ from the one last presented to
the house.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16

THE public are gradually recovering
from the shock of the White River rail-
road disaster, but much interest is still
manifested in relation to the cause of
the accident. AT first it was generally
attributed to broken rail, but in their
testimony before the railroad commits
sion Superintendent Mulligan of the
Connecticut River road, Division Super
intendent Todd of the Boston & Lowell
road, Master Mechanic Gordon of the
Concord road and Roadmaster Bean of
the Central Vermont were substantially
agreed that the accident was due to the
breaking of an axle of the rear Pullman
car. AS the railroad commission have
made thorough investigation, it is
possible that they may be able to give
clear explanation of the matter. The
weight of testimony of railroad en-
gineers and mechanics is that human
ingenuity hasn't yet succeeded in
manufacturing rails that will be an alb
oOlutc Sudlu dSdluot uclcClo, anu III
regard to the question of guard-rails on
bridges, about which good deal has
been said, it is the opinion of r. F.
Hawkins, the well-known Springfield
bridge-builder, that they would have
proved ineffective in the Hartford ac-
cident, though they should be provided
for all bridges and their approaches.
The Hartford bridge had eight-inch
guard timbers. Mr.. Hawkins is not
inclined to think that the Central Ver-
mont management can be held respon-
sible for the accident. The Springfield
Union reports Governor Smith as say
ing "that whatever construction the
courts put upon the question of the
roads responsibility would be met
cheerfully, and everything that it is
possible to do for the comfort of the
injured, or for the satisfaction of the
friends of the dead, will be done"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16
The Usual Result.

The strike in New York and vicinity
is nearly ended, and the result is pre-
cisely what was foreseen in the be-
ginning by everybody save the strikers
themselves. AT one time the number
of strikers aggregated forty thousand
and the movement seemed formid-
able one, yet every fresh extension of
the strike appears to have weakened it.
The coal-handlers, who started the
movement, have practically yielded to
their employers and left the thousands
of other classes of working-men who
quit work-not because they had any
grievance, but merely TO sustain the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16

THE Argus last week, in an editorial
paragraph relating to the affairs of the
Vermont Domestic Missionary Society,
referred to the fact that Rev. G. S.
Smith, who is the secretary of that
society, was "placed in editorial charge
of the Vermont Chronicle" and stated
that those who give to this society
are contributing funds for the sup
port of private enterprise, the ed
itorial conduct of a UNCONVENTIONAL
journal" This statement is false.
The editor of the Vermont Chronicle is
appointed to that position by the joint
action of its publisher and the General
Convention of Congregational Minis
tiers and Churches of Vermont, and his
editorial services are paid for solely by
the publisher. With the personal con-
Germs of the editor of the Chronicle
outside of that connection the pub
Usher has nothing to do. The Yer
mont Domestic Missionary Society has
nothing whatever to do with the pub
LEGATION of the Chronicle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16

In the senate last week, the late Gen
eral Logan was eulogized in speeches
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16

former in their contest-to look out for
themselves. Hundreds of the latter
who cbeyed the mandate of the execu-
tive committees of their organizations
to strike now find themselves out of
employment and their places filled with
non-union men, who are likely to be
retained. Many are without the neces-
saries of life and not few are begging
subsistence from the public. Business
interests have been injured by the
strike, and thousands of working-men
and their families who had nothing to
do with the strike have been made the
innocent victims of its effects. 1t is
fortunate for the general public, and
not less for the interests of labor itself,
that the great strike has proved a
failure. 1t is stated that one of the
managers of the movement boosted
that the time was speedily coming when
all interests and industries would be
dominated by organized labor, and that
the rights of other classes would be
held subordinate to those of the labor
interest. A power which has shown
itself capable of inflicting vast injury
upon the industries of the country and
working great hardship to the in
dustrious poor deserves little federation
at the hands of the public. The New
York Observer well says: "The method
adopted to enforce the original demand
on which the strike was based was not
unlike that of those foolish people who,
in Lambs fable, burned down whole
buildings in order that they might have
roast pig. 1t is to be hoped that in the
present case some genius may arise
among the labor leaders who will point
out the folly of gripping the industries
of half the continent in order to secure
II possible benefit to a few dissatisfied
men,
Since the above was put in type the
leaders made a final attempt to sustain
the strike by ordering out the station
airy engineers and brewers men, but
they refused to obey the order. Then
the leaders declared the strike at an
end. The coal-handlers failed to get
the twenty-five cents per hour they
had demanded and return to work at
twenty-five and one-half cents per
hour. The SIN says: "The confession
of defeat is set forth by the executive
board as the announcement of a most
remarkable victory, the value of which
the 'longshore- and men in allied
trades who are hunting for work will
probably be able to appreciate" Brad
streets commercial report puts the loss
of wages by strikers in and about New
York city since January 1st at $780,
600; loss by others thus thrown out of
work, $350,000; extra amount paid by
consumers for coal, owing to the strike,
100000; loss to export trade in two
weeks, $3,3S0,000.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20
THE DUST QUESTION.

The action of the Council on the question
of sprinkling the streets leaves it in the hands
or the committees on water and fire, with in
structions to confer with the chief of the fire
department as to the practicability of
sprinking the streets from fire plugs under
his direction, and what additional expense
would be necessary, and what portion of the
city could be so sprinkled; also, that the city
attorney be requested to report whether
Council has the power to create and enforce
an ordinance compelling residents on streets
to sprinkle the same, and pay pro rata per
front foot when majority petition for the
sprinkling. To the same committee were re-
ferred the Mayors suggestions on the subject
These suggestions seemed to assume the i'm
practicabiity of utilizing the fire department
to any extent for street.sprinkling
purposes, and this assumption was for
tilted by the opinion of the chief
Nevertheless we renew the suggestion
that the fire department be thus utilized, and
insist that it be given careful and candid
consideration. The objections thus far raised
are not based on such consideration They
are the result of preconceived opinion
that it cannot be done, and therefore
must not be done. Perhaps, if the
subject is approached with a
disposition to see how it can be DONE instead
of to prevent it from being DONE way can
be found. Certainly nothing could be more
impracticable. or less in keeping with the idea
of metropolitan city, than the Mayors sug-
gestion that the people be encouraged to fight
the dust with sprinklers. They will
hardly care to engage in that kind of a cru
SADIE while they are supporting an expensive
fire department, and paying the water works
$25, 900 year for water, of which it uses but
a very small part. Let the committees inves-
tigate the subject with view Of ascertaining
what can be done, and not what can be
evaded; and if it is found, after full investiga-
ton, that the Council is powerless and dust is
king, the public will have to submit with the
best grace it can. But we are opposed to
surrendering in advance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20

PETER ]. EGAN, of St. Louis, has been
found guilty O. committing election frauds
and sentenced to the penitentiary for two
years. He was Democratic officer of the
registry board, and his offense was entering
false names. In passing sentence on him the
court made some remarks, the following ex-
tract from which has a local application:
1.-The foundation of this government is on
the purity of the ballot, and if this be gov
eminent by the people, of the people and for
the people, it will cease to be government for
the people when it ceases to be government
by the people, and it will cease to be a gov
eminent by the people whenever every citizen
fails to get his full share in the election of
those who administer public affairs. Indeed,
it is but little exaggeration to say that few
crimes strike home with the same severe blow.
These crimes are rare in the country, but in
large cities it is a sad fact that they are very
common. In the history of this country
crimes against election laws have become too
frequent, but it is one of the hopeful signs
that the good people in several States in the
land are awake to the necessity Of putting a
stop to these crimes"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-20
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Parnellites in Parliament know how to
use the native American language Atlanta
Constitution.
GERMANY will next prohibit the people of
Alsace and Lorraine from thinking in French.
Philadelphia Times.
THE saloon-keeper who honestly obeys the law
is much better member of society than the
judicial Judicial :iuilifier OF its provisions
Philadelphia Record.
A PROVIDENCE paper says that the Democratic
victory in Rhode Island has advertised the
State" So the bomb massacre advertised Chi
cago but should regret TO be advertised that
way again.-Chicaeo Evening Journal
IN Greece senators receive only 800 per month
salary: but then members of the Legislature do
not come so high as in this country in Ohio, for
instance and their election therefore costs much
less-Pittsburg Chronicle.
WE commend current events In Maine, the re-
suit of more than twenty five years of abortiye
proscriptive legislation. to the thoughtful con-
sderation of temperance fanatics in the State of
New York. New \ ork Star.
THE defeat of prohibition in Michigan has been
followed by the organization of strong move
ment in favor of high license. The defeat of
Utop,an impracticabity has cleared the track
for genuine temperance reform. -Phladelphia
Press.
GEORGE WILLIAM Curtis tires the ear by re-
marking that Mr.. Cleveland would make bet
tee President we're it not for his party. He may